{"id":16647,"date":"2012-08-31T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16647"},"modified":"2012-08-31T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:35:13","slug":"on-builds-and-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/31\/on-builds-and-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"On builds and releases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once in a while I find myself in a conversation on builds and releases. \u00a0It’s one of those where before the conversation everyone seems to be on the same page, but immediately after the conversation starts, there’s a massive fight and argument as to how the world works today and what’s the best path into the future. \u00a0And it gets messy.<\/p>\n

I believe that the old approach of one release a decade is dead. \u00a0Especially in web application development. \u00a0The world is much more dynamic now, and so should be the release plans. \u00a0This seems obvious to many, and yet, not a lot of people understand the implication of this. \u00a0Making releases more dynamic means making the release operation cheaper, ideally – free. \u00a0Can you release a new version of the project once a day? \u00a0How about every hour? Why not? \u00a0You should be able to. \u00a0Regardless, whether you will actually release every second or not, the path to making releases cheap is automation. \u00a0And that means you have to have some form of software version control, and some form of build or deploy script. \u00a0And, of course, some form of rollback script for those times when things go hairy.<\/p>\n

One of the things that I do at my current job is setting up such a deployment process. \u00a0I’ve done it before, but it’s been a while, and given how fast these things change and improve, I’ve been looking around for new tools and ideas. \u00a0While doing so, I came across an interesting GitHub blog post<\/a>. \u00a0And while their requirements and environment are different from mine, I still found it useful. \u00a0One of the things that shows how well their process works is the stats at the end of the post. \u00a0Just look at them.<\/p>\n

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That’s about 100 deploys per day<\/strong>! Not bad, not bad at all.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Once in a while I find myself in a conversation on builds and releases. \u00a0It’s one of those where before the conversation everyone seems to be on the same page, but immediately after the conversation starts, there’s a massive fight and argument as to how the world works today and what’s the best path into … Continue reading On builds and releases<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,133,62],"tags":[3089,2809,1041,1588],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-continuous-integration","tag-github","tag-statistics","tag-version-control"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47591,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/12\/tips-for-implementing-a-software-release-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":16647,"position":0},"title":"Tips for Implementing a Software Release Process","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this nice article outlining some of the tips for implementing the software release process. 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